Thread for board issues

[AL]

@Sematary: saw 149 guests this morning, followed by a stream of 500 server errors; the bar keeps raising!

Re 403 errors, check http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=7958.0 for a discussion of possible triggers and fixes (in particular posts 4 and 6).

[Vortex421]

I've been getting regular 500 errors the past several days.  No real rhyme or reason to them - sometimes I get 2-3 in a row when trying to access a page, sometimes nothing!

(And just got an Out of Memory fatal error)

[MarcAFK]

Same here, I got a 500 making this post, many other errors yesterday as well as an out if memory one.

[Prince of Space]

The forums are showing up on Google searches now. Didn't they used to not be indexed for web searches? Maybe the 150+ guests we keep getting are from web crawlers that have begun accessing the forums since the forums got upgraded. Although the upgrade was back in October, wasn't it? And the rush of guests seems to have started around New Years Eve.

A quick bit of Googling shows a number of posts promoting 7.X in the past week, including on Reddit and a number of other video and forum sites, so maybe we've just been Farked.

[83athom]

I've also disabled the chat feature.

Since then, I've had only 1 500 error, and the posting/responsiveness is much greater. I'll leave it disabled for a couple of days and see how it goes.

I'm still having a lot of 500 errors. Maybe 1/3-1/2 of pages I try to go to I get them and have to reload once or twice to get there.
(Edit; got one getting to the post page and when I tried to post)

[Erik L (OP)]

The host installed suPHP. It seems to be generating all of the errors.

[Reypatey]

Hey!

I'd like to tell you why you are experiencing so much traffic over the past couple of days. 
Quill18, a youtuber, with ~300000 subscribers has started a video series about Aurora a few days ago.   The comment section is full of compliments for the game. 
I think the guests in your forums are his viewers who'd like to check out the game themselves - me included.   ;-)

Have a great day!
Reypatey

[Prince of Space]

Here we see Aurora's most outlandish departure from real world science: application of Transnewtonian elements to Youtube has resulted in a comments section that doesn't make me want to renounce my species.

Neat.

[davidr]

Erik ,

logged in , attempted to make a search but I am up against numerous internal server errors
which is preventing me continuing with my search. Even this post took 6 attempts before I could make the post.

Is there anything at all which will resolve the 500 internal server error?

DavidR

[Erik L (OP)]

Erik ,

logged in , attempted to make a search but I am up against numerous internal server errors
which is preventing me continuing with my search. Even this post took 6 attempts before I could make the post.

Is there anything at all which will resolve the 500 internal server error?

DavidR

A new host, less traffic, less cpu usage... The host put some crapware on that shoots the cpu/memory usage up, then throttles me because the cpu/memory usage is up...

[Mor]

saw 149 guests this morning, followed by a stream of 500 server errors; the bar keeps raising!

The number of guest deviate base on the time of day, usually when it goes bellow 90 there are no issues...


Btw, does anyone know what happened here around October 08, 2014 ? big Aurora release?

[MarcAFK]

I believe the server was bumrushed by semi-sentient kitchen advertising bots.
Notice the number of posts was extremely low.

[Ostia]

508 Resource Limit Is Reached
Resource Limit Is Reached


This is getting better by the week.

[MarcAFK]

Would it help if I donate? 
I'll setup a Dropbox of fresh ram for the server to mine.
Is pick.exe running?
(Sorry if the jokes are getting out of hand)

[Erik L (OP)]

I'm looking at a new host. It's a VPS solution so the domain would be on it's only little island, unlike now. Monthly cost will double from $25 to $50. And of course they want the first year up front. That will have to wait until next weekend.